Item Detail
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Vaka, Demetra;Rogers, Bruce;Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection;Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection
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Haremlik : some pages from the life of Turkish women
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1909
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1909
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274
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Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Oriental Women, published in 1909, was based on experiences from 1901 when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances. On the one hand Haremlik is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, and on the other hand, its author enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman. Tracing the emergence of a modern sensibility among Muslim women, Haremlik also reveals the predicament Vaka Brown faced in constructing an authorial and narrative identity in the interstices between East and West, modernity and tradition. Yiorgos Kalogeras is Professor of English in the School of Philosophy, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. Cultures in Dialogue returns to print sources by women writ
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by Demetra Vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown).; Title also in Turkish in Arabic script.; Designed by Bruce Rogers.; Work of Bruce Rogers, 194
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Houghton Mifflin Co.
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Boston